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Rural is anywhere where you can sit on your front porch and fire your rifle into the air without worrying about hitting a neighbor. Not too many rural areas left.
GL2
North Daykota, I was there a few years ago and I have NEVER seen anywhere as sparsley populated in my life. It was truely like mars there. There were no houses for at least 20 miles at one stage. I'm sorry but I don't know how anyone can live like that, what if there was a medical emergency or something happened? You'd be on your own then and you'd have hardly any friends either.
The same argument could be used for a cellphone -- What if there was a medical emergency or something happened? But people (like your parents) managed to get through those emergencies for thousands of years before cellphones. And how many times in your life were you ever in an emergency in which you needed someone to save your life within 20 minutes? People who live in those kinds of circumstances are, umm, more careful. Like mountain climbers and parachutists and scuba divers. They can't afford the luxury of negligence, and get used to it.
Novelist Norman Rush pointed out that you have to live in a city of at least a million in order to be assured of having three friends. But, in North Dakota, you'd have to have at least three strangers passing by in order to have three friends. That's the way people are in places like that.
B y the way, if you think the "middle of nowhere" is bad, try some places that are out on the edges of nowhere, like Canada's Queen Charlotte Islands, or the coast of Labrador. Or even places like Stienhatchie Florida or Boca Chica Texas or Candelaria Texas or Neah Bay Washington or Bois Blanc, Michigan.
I think they don't because in my section PCP which has a Rep for being bad (its not bad) they harass the pizza delivery guys so what would with Chinese
Aha, yes, PCP isn't well-liked by the locals because the people who live there came from places like the Bronx and brought a lot of crime up with them. My sister has been living in the Poconos for more than 30 years, and when her daughter was in high school, she started carrying a knife to school because the NYers who moved up there were picking fights. My sister packed her daughter up and sent her to live with my mom in Jersey for high school.
Rural is anywhere where you can sit on your front porch and fire your rifle into the air without worrying about hitting a neighbor. Not too many rural areas left.
GL2
Sadly, though, a lot of people left who think it is self-fulfilling to fire a rifle in the air.
Sadly, though, a lot of people left who think it is self-fulfilling to fire a rifle in the air.
You are right jtur. Firing a rifle in the air would not be a good idea. But like my post implied if you CANNOT fire a rifle into the air without endangering a neighbor you are not living in a RURAL area. That's a joke but maybe Texas is too crowded.
If you want to see the middle of nowhere come out to Wyoming. We have plenty of that!
And most of them live in town.
GL2
Sorry Wyo Eagle. That was meant as a reply to jtur.
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